We breezed through Halloween festivities and finished our Plate Tectonics Unit in Science!
Here are the other great highlights of November:
Math: We've worked through Chapter 4, learning a lot about variables and expressions and practicing problems with ratios. Students should know that a term in an expression is separated by subtraction or addition. We practiced enlarging and reducing ratios in a special way; ask your student about our Mystery Mascot! |
Reading: We've been doing a lot more independent reading in the last month. Apparently there was a trend with the Happily Ever After books. I also have seen a lot of the I Survived series lately! I'm impressed with the students who are trying to challenge themselves with on-level books!
In Social Studies we've finished up a Chapter on Ancient China and now are discussing the Indus River Valley and related topics. We've learned about the beginning of Hinduism and Buddhism, and talked about some similarities and differences to Christianity.
We've also learned various Geography skills in the past few weeks: how to navigate through an airport, how to read a road map, and how to work with various maps of North America (as well as other parts of the world.)
We've also learned various Geography skills in the past few weeks: how to navigate through an airport, how to read a road map, and how to work with various maps of North America (as well as other parts of the world.)